If you’re in the US, don’t forget to VOTE in your local election - who you elect as mayor and to the city council can have a huge impact on your life.
Nepotism flourishes because of local off-year elections (when the election doesn’t coincide with the presidential election) - people forget to vote and the same old white, cis, men stay in power.
Get out and VOTE!
Celebrating our niece’s sweet sixteen. All the kids were in fancy dresses, so I had to butch it up and represent in a three piece suit while the Hot Wife wore flannel.
every time i sit down 2 watch a horror movie i think of that one tweet :/
rb if you too sit down in ur room and watch horror movies alone
Hell yes. Always. Especially when I watch a movie that I know the Hot Wife won’t like and wouldn’t want to be in the room while it’s on (even if she’s ignoring it and reading).
I also go to movie theaters alone.
So idk. 🤷🏻♂️
Dyed the Hot Wife’s hair tonight. She’s not smiling because she doesn’t like the way it looks without “product.” And I’m smiling because she let me take the photo anyway, knowing I would post it here.
Not much content lately because I’ve been spending a lot of time helping my parents while the Hot Wife is keeping the home fires burning.
Tonight we made a bit of time to spend together before I head back to my parents’ house tomorrow.
With so many elections coming up worldwide it's probably a good time to remind everyone that tumblr once got infested with agents trying to convince everyone not to vote, or not to vote left because the candidates weren't morally pure enough.
Also a reminder that they were better at tumblr than most of us, comrade interloper was great at memeing. Like, the talent!
Anyway don't fall for it. There is no morally pure option.
Vote for whoever can move you one inch closer to your goals. This is a long game. If there's a candidate who wants to move you a mile closer to your goals but they do not stand a chance in the general election, you vote for whoever can move you one inch closer to your goals. The time to vote for the "one mile" candidate in the primaries. Once you get to the general, you vote for the one who has a chance in hell of winning, or you're actively working against progress. 100% of the time, voting in a general for a "can't win" candidate because their beliefs align more with your beliefs is actively working for the opposition. There is no situation in which this is not true.
One side is addressing climate change and raising the minimum wage and forgiving student debt. The other side are GODDAMN TRAITORS AND INSURRECTIONISTS and are openly removing women's rights, LGBTQ people's rights and VOTING access. But DO tell me again that Both Sides Are Just As Bad As Each Other.
Vote. Every time you don’t vote moves you closer to the day when you’ll never be allowed to vote again.
All of this.
Especially tzikeh’s strategy, which is the best damn voting strategy I’ve ever heard.
public libraries in the usa offering free digital library cards to people not in their areas (as of october 2023):
these cards (part of the books unbanned initiative) get you access to each library's complete libby/overdrive collection (unless otherwise mentioned), no hoopla/kanopy/physical copies included.
ebook collections are expensive to maintain (many american libraries have annual fees for non-residents because of this) but because of an uptick in book banning (particularly brutal in mississippi last summer) larger libraries have opened their doors more, which is very kind of them!
i've used my seattle card for the last several months and their libby collection has about three times the books that my local library does, which is wonderful for accessing more niche titles or skipping a waiting list. would love to hear of similar ebook initiatives internationally!
i use library extension (firefox/safari/chrome compatible) to check all my collections (+ the internet archive) at once, works for several different countries highly recommend it.
spotify seems to be offering 15hrs/month of audiobook listening to premium subscribers and while that does seem useful if you're already paying and are after a new release with a long library waitlist, libraries are better for everything else.
Boosting this so kids and young adults have access to books and information.
Great weekend at my in-laws, hanging with the nieces and nephew. Mini-golf, apple picking, pumpkin picking, and hanging by the fire.
For the Hot Wife’s birthday, I made Funko Pop figures of both of us and painted her companion cat to look like Cinco (HW’s his person). My companion is a ghost because the Hot Wife is my Boo. 😄
COTU=Center of the Universe (a nickname of hers that goes way back - yeah, my gal’s got a bit of an ego!) 🙄
Was a fun day and even better night!
ghost choir 👻 🎵
I DID NOT THINK ANYTHING COULD TOP GHOST DUET
I WAS WRONG
I HAVE NEVER BEEN SO HAPPY TO BE WRONG IN ALL MY LIFE
Happy Halloween the 1st!
This is the best.
Much needed date night with the Hot Wife. 24 years together and we still hold hands with each other. She’s my best gal. ❤️
Bumming around Richmond with the Hot Wife. Visited the Edgar Allen Poe Museum (great little museum, nice collection of Poe artifacts) and loved hanging with the museum cats Edgar (lap cat) and his brother, Pluto, as we took shelter from the storm. Then stopped we off in a pub for a warm drink and dessert.
Today's Adventure is that I, after an unintentional 13-hour power nap,
Update:
Ok, so:
... further details in a bit I think the Vikings are here.
OK so.
This is the greatest story ever told about the best day ever. It’s about community, found family, and defeating bullies.
cunt dykeula. is this anything.
Japanese stage play 'Dracula: The Musical' with its all-female cast. In particular, Wao Yoka as Dracula.
She is serving.
I’ve always been a werewolf kinda dyke, but jfc, I now understand the appeal of vampires.
The Hot Wife knows exactly what to say to make me feel good (hint: it’s the “and a little spooky”).
🎃
If you’re a poor person listen spending less on things that makes you happy/only spending money on essentials will not get you out of poverty but will make you want to kill yourself
Everyone gets so mad when they see poor ppl spend money on anything other than food and rents and i gotta tell you being a “good” poor is a misery trip you’ll never please these people
Things that bring you joy should be considered as essential.
girls go to college to get more knowledge. men go to svalbard to die in the polar night.
wait fr
oh my god
men when they die in svalbard
and waste fresh meat???
I didn't think that it would be more wild, but it is. Terrifying.
And the permafrost is thawing.
My friend’s kid asked if I would be part of the Queer Youth Assemble and drive my car ahead of them as they marched in the community Labor Day parade. Unfortunately the car is a bit small for the banner, and we didn’t get the turnout we were hoping for, but we made it work. (The Hot Wife didn’t march, but she did watch the parade with our friends, cheer for us, and take photos.)
We got runner up for people’s choice from the parade committee!
People have pointed out before that Xena does not shame other women or shame men for being feminine. Zero percent fem-shaming. She values feminine characters and traits instead and actually learns from them.
There’s more…
You know how much slut-shaming Xena did? None. Not even her past and highly evil self got shamed for having sex.
You know how many emo feelings Xena had despite her capacity for extremely instrumental, strategic military action? All of them. All of the feelings.
You know how much having a woman as a life partner damaged Xena’s self-identity? None. It actually just made it more awesome.
You know how many seconds it took Xena to deal with her cisgender privilege and act in pragmatic solidarity with a trans woman? Less than ten seconds.
Xena had more respect for her horse than most action heroes have for their own lives.
She offered more and more dignity to herself and other people throughout the show. It was part of her character’s development, part of her heroism.
And that is another way of articulating why Xena is so awesome.
I think a lot of people have the impression that Xena was a silly, throwaway kind of show (the marketing did a lot to push that narrative). And it could be at times. But it was also so much more (see post above).
Buffy gets a lot of attention for the musical episode Once More With Feeling, which aired November 6, 2001.
Xena’s musical episode The Bitter Suite aired February 2, 1989 and doesn’t get nearly the attention it deserves. In it, Xena and Gabrielle finally work through all the pain and resentment from events in Britannia and the murder of Xena’s son. It’s an amazing episode with fantastic songs and is very theatrical.
Xena still holds up 20+ years later. No cringe at all. And it spawned a whole lot of fanfic - canon, Janice/Mel (Xena Scrolls), conqueror fiction, and uber.
Xena: Warrior Princess is more than you see at first glance.
Back home for 24-hrs before I head back to my parents’ house. Got dressed up for brunch with friends (too hot to wear jackets outside).
The Hot Wife wanted a photo with our skull tiki torch and one with the Rose of Sharon behind us. 😄 I love my gal, she’s the best.
(And yes, I just fixed the collar on my shirt. It was an early morning, and I’m still a bit tired.)
